A sum up on how Quran (The last -Holy Book) compiled and preserved.

1. QURAN PRESERVATION & COMPILATION
During the prophet‘s LifetimE

2.  PRESERVATION OF THE QURAN
MEMORIZATION
RECORDING

3. MEMORIZATION BY THE PROPHET (PBUH)
Qral transmission of the revelation was based on hifz or
memorization and The Prophet (pbuh) was the first commit a
revelation to memory after the Angel Gabriel had brought it
to Him:
‘Move not thy tongue concerning the
Quran to make haste therewith. We have
promulgated it, follow thou its
recital’(75:16-19)
……..an Apostle from God, Rehearsing
scriptures, kept pure and holy… (98:2)

4. MEMORIZATION BY THE COMPANIONS
The Prophet(pbuh) declared the revelation and
instructed his Companions to memorise it :
 It was after the migration to Abyssinia
of some Sahabah that Abu Bakr , under
“Abdullah Ibn Masud the Protection of a non-Qurayshite
who,was early convert ,had leader, Ibn al Dugunnah ,earmarked a
once been mercilessly place outside his house to pray and
bludgeoned by the Quraysh
for reciting Surah Al- read the Quran loudly, prompting his
Rahman (55) loudly near the enemies to take exception to it.
Qabah. He had voluntarily
offered to do it. It occurred in
an early period of the
Prophet’s mission in
Makkah.

5. Prophet encouragement for
memorization
Abdullah B Masud
Musab B Umayr
Muadh B Jabal

6. Writing Materials
Al Adeem :Leather
Al Riqa: Pieces of thin animal skin
Al Asab:Palm-Leaf stalk.
Al Aqtab:Wooden wide tablet.
Al Karanif :Palm-steam or branch
Al Aktaf: camel shoulder bone
Al lihkaf:Stone tablets

7. RECORDING (WRITING)
The conversion of Umar B Al Hattab
Narration of Al-Bara: 4:95

8. “Zaid bin Thabit, one of the chief scribes relates: "I used to write down the
revelation for the Holy Prophet (pbuh). When the revelation came to him
he felt intense heat and drops of perspiration used to roll down his body
like pearls. When this state was over I used to fetch a shoulder bone or a
piece of something else. He used to go on dictating and I used to write it
down. When I finished writing the sheer weight of transcription gave me
the feeling that my leg would break and I would not be able to walk
anymore. Anyhow when I finished writing, he would say, Read!' and I
would read it back to him. If there was an omission or error he used to
correct it and then let it be brought before the people…"

9. Prophet(pbuh)’s
Scribes
Abu Bakr
Umar B Al Hattab
Utman B Affan
Ali B Ebu Talib
Zaid B Thabit
Arqam B Arqam
Ubayy B Ka’b
Khalid B Al Waleed
Thabit B Qays
Muaviyah B Abi Sufyan
Aban B Sa’ed
Handalah B Al-Rabi

10. COMPILATION AND STANDARDIZATION OF THE QURAN
DURING ABUBAKR’S AND UTHMAN’S LIFETIME (A.S)

11. The apostasy
wars
Zayd and his Deniers to
role. pay zakat,
ABUBAKR
‘Umar (R.A.)
was shocked (R.A) ‘S
Pseudo
and
proposed to TIME Prophets
compile the
Qur’an.
70 Huffadh War against
and Qurra’ al- Musaylamah
Qur’an. al-Kadhdhab.

12. STANDARDIZATION BY UTMAN (R.A)
Huge new converts
Hudhayfah al-
Expansion of at Syria in the war Serious difference
Yaman’s (R.A.)
Islamic territory of Armenia and in recitation
appeal to Caliph
Azerbaijan
‘Uthman’s (r.a.)
consultation with Committee
Source Language
the members of Members: 4
Shura
Few copies. Sent to The same Qur’an
Authenticated copy Issue of burning
various regions exists today

13. Claim that Qur’an was not written completely during the Prophet’s time
• Al-Nawawi states in his commentary on Saheeh Muslim:
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• It was narrated from Abu Sa'eed al-Khudri that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "Do not write anything from me; whoever has
written anything from me other than the Qur'aan, let him erase it and narrate from me,
for there is nothing wrong with that." (Narrated by Muslim) …

14. It is reported on the authority
of Abdullah B Abbas that
whenever the revelation came
down the Prophet (pbuh)
called one of His scribes to Zaid B Thabit is quoted to
write it down.
have said We used to write the
Quran on pieces of leather (Al-
Riqa) in the presence of the
Prophet ( pbuh).

15. During the last pilgrimage of Prophet (pbuh) at the
sermon which He gathered Muslims, and said :I left
behind two things if you hold fast to it you will
never fall into error-a plain indication, the Book of
Allah (SWT) and the Sunnah of His Prophets.”